{"id":563,"date":"2008-02-11T10:38:31","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T17:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/?p=563"},"modified":"2008-02-11T14:59:04","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T21:59:04","slug":"non-profit-transparency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/?p=563","title":{"rendered":"Non-Profit Transparency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Too late for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cherubimfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cherubim Foundation<\/a>, but nonetheless good to see: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/denver\/stories\/2008\/01\/28\/story10.html\" target=\"_blank\">Stricter IRS Form 990 to be more revealing, costly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Among other things, the IRS wants to know more about the nonprofit&#8217;s business transactions and joint ventures, and its relationships with the directors on its board, as well as directors&#8217; relationships with each other. Nonprofits will have to disclose more information about their officers&#8217; compensation, political campaigning and lobbying activities; whether the organization has written policies covering conflicts of interest, whistleblowers and document destruction; and describe how it enforces some of those policies.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Funny-sad that a software engineer had a better sense of what the future had in store for how non-profits would be held accountable than a board of purported business leaders. I believe a lot of what they did, or rather didn&#8217;t do, was the result of weak accountability. When people know they will be held accountable, in some meaningful way, they tend to pay better attention to the consequence of their actions &#8211; particularly when the risks they take are done with other people&#8217;s money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too late for Cherubim Foundation, but nonetheless good to see: Stricter IRS Form 990 to be more revealing, costly. Among other things, the IRS wants to know more about the nonprofit&#8217;s business transactions and joint ventures, and its relationships with the directors on its board, as well as directors&#8217; relationships with each other. Nonprofits will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}